Filtering Results from a Concatenated List

I have managed to pivot some data from a veritcal layout to a horizontal concatenated view. However, I'm having a bit of a struggle to figure out a simple and quick way to filter the results without having to put it in excel and look at each record.

Basically, we have a table with an issue_num field and then two other fields - one called column_name and one called column_value

And it goes on and on of course...the number of variations in the column_name field I think can go up to like "Value_Z" and its totally varied how many values 1 issue_num may have.

So, what I did was create a nice query that puts it vertically for me like so:

12345......0,1,0
45678......-,-
98765......0,0,0,0

Now, the thing I'm struggling with since my concatenated field will never have the same number of values and could look something like this in addition to what I have shown: 0,4,2,1,-,-,-,1,2,3,4 ... and I need to pull out all issue numbers that have either a 0 across the board or a "-" across the board.

So, in my example, I would want my query to return 45678 and 98765 because those do not have any valid values in each column value.

I tried messing with a complicated where clause but it just got ugly and I even pasted the result set into excel and thought about manually looking at each one but I know there has to be a programmatic way for me to do this, I'm just having a brain fart.

Any help is appreciated. :)
Please let me know if you need more information.

and its the column_value and the issue_num that I care about not the column_name. The part I can't get my where clause around is that the column_name field could have one value per issue_num or 20 ... if it was a consistent range IE A-E, then I could do it no problem.

So, of the original data listing that I have above... what I'm after is only issue_num 45678 and issue_num 98765 because they have 0's and -'s for every instance of column_name. 12345 does not fit into the criteria because one of the values is a 1.

If there was another way to get what I need from the original data without having to concatenate all the values then that would work too... but I'm trying not to turn this into a giant stored procedure just to get at some informational data.

You have some technique to take that ugly data (which has all those periods) and parse out the values you want, and group each issue_num into one record with column_name containing its related comma-delimited list of values.

I suggest you normalize your data (first normal form, or 1NF) so each field (in this case, column_name) only contains a single value. I used the wrong field name, but I qualified that in the assumptions.

However, I tweaked your query there a bit for the data as it is.... and I tip my hat off to you sir because you are a genius.... it works... and its so simple. I kept looking at this like it was incredibly complicated and so it must require a complicated solution.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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